It's a scam. I've looked into it as part of my climate justice advocacy. There's so so much fraud going on. Sometimes offsets pay for land grabbing of indigenous land even. It's fucked.
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Oh I never thought of it that way.
Maybe the top part can be something socially useful like a weather station and scuba school.
How heartbreaking
Oooof, thanks for this. Quoting the whole thing for reference for others:
FWIW, I asked my former partner, who is an actual Palestinian anarchist in the West Bank, about this organization "Fauda" that has been getting a lot of attention.
Not one to mince words, here's what she had to say, which I share with her permission, "I only saw their Instagram page. It's clear that they are a bunch of social media lazy fucks sitting on their ass somewhere in Europe as I don't see any Fauda taking place here and they're not even posting visuals from Palestine. I have serious questions about them, for now I would say don't trust them or count they are organizing on the ground."
Glad you benefited!
So genocide is a sufficiently large cost? THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN JUSTIFY INDISCRIMINATE BOMBINGS AGAINST CIVILIANS. If Hamas does it, it’s bad, but when Israel does it, suddenly it’s a justified response?
And whose fault is that? I guarantee that if Israel starts treating Palestinians with respect, the Palestinians will be more amendable to a single country with equal rights. If you have lived 75 years under martial law, you will inevitably get these views where co-habitation becomes impossible. We saw it in South Africa. But look at South Africa now: the indigenous Black population and settler minorities now live together with equal rights. The end of apartheid is possible, but the initiative has to come from Israel, not the Palestinians.
You misunderstand Netanyahu’s calculus here. He wants genocide. It HAS ALWAYS BEEN genocide from the Nakba. Bombing Gaza is a poor way of rescuing hostages, unless you plan to kill the hostages.
This means that any kind of live-alongside-each-other situation is going to require significant security concessions from the Palestinians as part of the total package.
Oh you mean a security concession like apartheid? Literally Palestinians have nothing to concede beyond leaving Palestine.
EDIT: Let it be clear that the first step to peace HAS ALWAYS BEEN in Israel’s court. They have to be the ones to start treating Palestinians with dignity and respect, to stop the occupation and apartheid. Palestinians have nothing left to concede other than their own destruction.
Yep! This book is great.
I don't know where you live but all the governments I've seen are full of assholes. As the sociologist and not anarchist Charles Tilly noted, government is organized crime. Some assholes thousands of years ago set up a protection racket and we've been living with the consequences ever since. Every benevolent act by government merely legitimizes the violence they inflict.